Sunday Talking Heads: May 12, 2013

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Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there! May your breakfast be in bed, the kitchen clean, the flowers fresh, and the dinner out – and nothing but sunshine in between.

Other than that, it’s a Benghazi morning AND you get several helpings of John McCain.

NEWSMAKERS:Rep.?Mac Thornberry (R-TX) talks about defense issues – this past week’s Defense Department report on sexual assaults on women, defense spending and the FY2014 DOD budget, what the U.S. should do about Syria, defense issues related to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, what to do about the Guantanamo Bay base, the Afghanistan drawdown, and more.

Q & A:Scott Shane, national security reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times. He discusses his recent New York Times Sunday feature story titled “From Spy to Source to Convict,” an examination of a former C.I.A. officer now in prison for leaking information to a reporter. He details the charges against former agent John Kiriakou, a fourteen year veteran of the agency…

60 MINUTES:The Rescue of Jessica Buchanan – In her first interview, the American aid worker recounts her terrifying kidnapping, captivity and dramatic nighttime rescue by Navy SEALs in the Somali desert. Scott Pelley reports. >Succeeding As Civilians – Air Force veteran Mike Haynie, a business professor at Syracuse University, has created a course to teach vets how to start their own businesses. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports. Bill Gates 2.0 – Charlie Rose visits Microsoft founder Bill Gates in his private office, where he shows a personal side that’s rarely seen and displays a priceless Da Vinci manuscript that inspires the billionaire innovator and humanitarian.

FDL’S BOOK SALON:What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. “Gar Alperovitz speaks directly to the reader about where we find ourselves in history, why the time is right for a new-economy movement to coalesce, what it means to build a new system to replace the crumbling one, and how we might begin. He also suggests what the next system might look like—and where we can see its outlines, like an image slowly emerging in the developing trays of a photographer’s darkroom, already taking shape.”
Come chat with Gar Alperovitz about his new book, hosted by David Dayen. 5pm ET, 2pm PT.

FDL’S MOVIE NIGHT MONDAY:My Neighborhood. “When a Palestinian boy loses half of his home to Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem, he joins his community in a campaign of nonviolent protests. Efforts to put a quick end to the demonstrations are foiled when scores of Israelis choose to stand by the residents’ side.” WATCH ONLINE (25 minutes) then meet with Lisa Derrick and her guests Monday night at 8pm ET, 5pm PT.